Fastening device for garments.



PATENTBD APR. 25, 1905.

L. A. FERRANDINI. FASTENING DEVICE FOR GARMBNTS.

APPLICATION FILED 00124, 1904.

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Patented April 25, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

LEON AJFERRANDINI, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLANDL FASTENING DEVICE FORGARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,25 1, dated April25, 1905.

Application filed October 24:, 1904;. Serial No. 229,732.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON A. FERRANDINI, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, haveinvented certainnew and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for Garments, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in fastening devices forgarments.

The object of the invention is to construct an improved device of thischaracter which will provide a yielding connection between two garmentsor between the adjacent edges of a single garment and permit freedom ofmovement by the body without undue strain on the buttons or fastener.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 illustrates the fastener securing the two edges of a garmenttogether. Fig. 2 shows a vertical sectional view through the garmentedges with the fastener in place. Fig. 3 shows a perspective view of thedetached fastener. Fig. aillustrates a horizontal sectional view throughthe fastener just above the yielding button; and Fig. 5 is a Viewsimilar to Figs. 1 and 2, except it shows the garment edges and thefastener in the positionit assumes to relieve the buttons of strain.

In the drawings, 1 designates a garment such, for example, as achildswaist-having a waistband 2 at its lower edge and provided with the usualbuttons 3, which are secured to said waistband. The garment 4 is alsoprovided with a waistband 5, having the usual buttonholes 6, whichusually receive the buttons on the waist. The fastener comprises abase-plate 7, preferably of metal and having a bridge-bar 8 extending inlengthwise direction. This bridge-bar in the present instance is formedby being stamped out of the base-plate 7 and then stretched or drawn soas to elongate it sufliciently to form the lateral ends 9. It isobvious, however, that the bridge-bar may be of a separate piece andriveted or otherwise secured to the base-plate.

A head 10 has a central slot 11, through which the bridge-bar 8 passes,and said head is movable in a direction lengthwise of the base-plate onsaid bridge-bar. This head is provided with laterally-projecting sideportions 12, which project at opposite sides of the bridge-bar andpreferably bear on the base-plate. A shank or neck 13 projects centrallyfrom the head 10 and carries a button 1 1, which is rigidly securedthereto and moves with said head and shank. A spiral spring 15 surroundsthe bridge-bar and has one end pressing against said head, whereby tokeep the head and buttons 14 normally at one end of the bridge-bar, andthe other end of said spring rests against the lateral end 9.

A tab 16 is secured in any suitable manner to the rear of thebase-plate, and said tab is provided with a buttonhole 17, which hasposition approximately adjacent the upper end of the base-plate.

In practice the tab-buttonhole 17 is passed over the usual button 3 onthe waist, and the fastener is thus attached so as to hang pendent. Thebuttonhole 6 in the garment 4, such as the childs drawers, is thenfastened over the button 14 on the sliding head 10, and the spiralspring serves to keep the head up toward the upper end of the base-plate7. When strain is brought on the buttons, the yielding connectionbetween the two or the movable spring-pressed head will yield, andrelieve the buttons of such strain, as seen in Fig. 5. This strain willtake place when a child stoops over; but when the body resumes its erectposition the spring will move the head and button back to its originalposition near the upper end of the base-plate.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a garment-fastening the combination with a base-plate, of a headmox ably secured to said base-plate; a button carried by said head;means for yieldingly sustaining the head and button, and means forsecuring the base-plate to a garment.

- 2. In a garment-fastening the combination with a base-plate, of a baron said base-plate; a head sliding on said bar; a button on said head; aspring to keep the head and button in its normal position and a tab forsecuring ing the bridge-bar and in contact with said the base-plate to agarment. head. IO

3. In a garment-fastening the combination In testimony whereof I afiixmy signature in with a base-plate, of a tab at one side of the presenceof two Witnesses. 5 base-plate and having a buttonhole; a bridge- LEONA. FERRANDINI.

bar at the other side of said base-plate; a Witnesses: head movablysecured on said bridge-bar; a CHAS. B. MANN,

button on said head, and a spring surround- J. HENRY SIRIGH, J r.

